On Feb 22, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Andrew Moore wrote:
Here's my question - what person can copy 100 wpm? Only a handful of
people in the world can copy 60 wpm!
I'd guess it's a larger group than you might think -- though I'd agree
those folks are few and far between. I've run into a handful than can
copy 100, and I remember about 10 years ago I was in disbelief when a
guy on a 2m repeater told me he could do over 100, so I put him on the
spot and cranked up my computer's CW speed to 100, asked him a question
in CW over the repeater, and he answered. Holy cow.
Color me skeptical. I wonder if it is a "mind reading" trick. I wonder
how accurate a computer sending CW would be at 100 wpm -- or how well
it would sound passing through a repeater.
The highest official CW speed was about 74 wpm, a record that was set
decades ago and never overturned. If there's so many people who can
copy north of 60 wpm, why has this record never been broken?
The bottom line -- if you are looking to run a 100 wpm data link on HF
Nope, this is for copy in the head. For some reason when I listen to
folks QSO at 60 or 70 or higher, it just gets me really motivated, and
all the enjoyment I experienced when I started fiddling with radios
comes right back again
Where are these 60 wpm and higher operators? The highest speed CW I
hear is just north of 40 wpm -- during contests.
I knew a couple of blind hams who ran the WV Novice Net almost three
decades ago. They'd plug along at 5 wpm, close the net, then crank
their keyboards to 50 wpm and have a QSO right there. But that's 50
wpm, not 70.
You bring up a good point about a firmware PTT
tweak -- it doesn't sound like a horribly complicated thing to
implement, but then again, I don't know anything about the K2's
firmware.
It's something that's been brought up often enough by contesters.
Whenever the next firmware revision comes out, it's something to
anticipate.
I wonder if one could just hack the hardware to somehow keep TX
engaged,
even if it means manually throwing a switch -- equivalent to the PTT
method but instead going right to the hardware. After all, we have the
schematics (er, or I will once I order my new K2! :)
There is a modification to do this, implementing CW PTT:
<http://www.qsl.net/w3fpr/ptt_input_for_the_elecraft_k2.htm>
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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